Large-scale agricultural investments (LSAIs) typically depend on strong formal institutions and market-oriented intensive farming,...

This article investigates whether China’s foreign aid is particularly prone to capture by political leaders of aid-receiving...

We use a double-calibrated general equilibrium model to decompose the growth of the high-skilled wage premium in the UK from 1979 to...

This paper analyzes Germany’s unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with...

If the monetary authority lacks commitment, a monetary union can dominate flexible exchange rates. With forward-looking staggered...

The literature on economic systems and corresponding empirical studies have largely focused on a classification for developed...

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation...

This paper uses firm-level survey for more than 100 countries to examine whether firms’ female managers or female owners were better...

We establish a causal role for banking access in the spread of the Industrial Revolution over the period 1817–1881 by exploiting...

We analyze the implications of trend growth for optimal monetary policy in the presence of search and matching unemployment. We show...

This paper studies the relationship between firm markups and importing intermediate inputs and exporting using detailed firm-level...

This study uses quasi-experimental data from 173 students in Bangladesh and Germany to explore the effect of entrepreneurship...

The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the licensee, using...

Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific...

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that...

The attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be of particular importance for emerging economies because it...

It has been observed that in a variety of tasks, losses have a larger impact on behavior than do gains of equal size. This phenomenon...